I’m currently writing some of the final chapters of my latest travel book. I recently revisited my notes about visiting the National Gallery of Denmark. I really like the paragraph I wrote about it: We concluded our museum day at the National Gallery of Denmark, which featured artwork from the 14th century to the present.Continue reading “National Gallery of Denmark”
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That Time I Went Through a Gourd Carving Phase
I don’t even know why I went to the Wuertz Gourd Festival in 2013, but I did. It was there where I first encountered the Gourd Art of Bonnie Gibson and I decided that I wanted to learn how to do what she did. I joined the Arizona Gourd Society and took a few classes.Continue reading “That Time I Went Through a Gourd Carving Phase”
Milwaukee Art Museum
Photos from my retro photo album titled: Milwaukee, November 2008. Above is a sculpture positioned near the Milwaukee Art Museum, with an almost frozen Lake Michigan behind it. The Calatrava-designed architecture of course went over budget to the tune of $100 million dollars when it was built in 2001! (Its estimated cost rose from $38 millionContinue reading “Milwaukee Art Museum”
Lascaux Region in Paleolithic Times
Lascaux is a region in France where anatomically modern human remains were found, dating to about 28,000 years ago (Upper Paleolithic). The earliest modern humans – Cro-Magnons – were present in Europe by 43,000 years ago during a long interglacial period of particularly mild climate, when Europe was relatively warm, and food was plentiful. Some of the oldest worksContinue reading “Lascaux Region in Paleolithic Times”
Paleolithic Art
The Dame de Brassempouy (or Venus of Brassempouy) is a tiny head carved from mammoth ivory. It dates from the Upper Paleolithic and is about 25,000 years old. The fragmentary figurine is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face. The Venus of Brassempouy is preserved in the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris. Since ivoryContinue reading “Paleolithic Art”
Hieronymus Bosch Notes
Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings. Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evils of man. What the heck is going on in his paintings? For a man that lived before the age of dropping acid, he sure was trippy. TheContinue reading “Hieronymus Bosch Notes”
Van Gogh Notes
Died, suicide 37 Bouts of melancholy, profound disillusionment Cerebral, lonely He wanted to give something of himself to this world. Wasn’t afraid to try and persevere. He was only idle when he had to be. A victim of circumstance – Felt imprisoned by poverty. Uncompromising, difficult – he knew that people didn’t like him and found himContinue reading “Van Gogh Notes”
The Scream
Munch’s The Scream is an icon of modern art, the Mona Lisa for our time. As Leonardo da Vinci evoked a Renaissance ideal of serenity and self-control, Munch defined how we see our own age – wracked with anxiety and uncertainty. Essentially The Scream is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch’s actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on aContinue reading “The Scream”
The Art of Nothingness
The Banksy painting that sensationally self-destructed three years ago after selling for $1.4 million at auction was resold by Sotheby’s Thursday for 18.6 million pounds, or $25.4 million dollars in Oct 2021. At the time of the shredding incident, Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art, Europe, said: “Banksy didn’t destroy an artwork in the auction, heContinue reading “The Art of Nothingness”
Caspar David Friedrich
Everyone has their favorite artist, some artist that they connect to in their heart. Some people adore Monet for his colors, some love Van Gogh for his vitality, and some might love Picasso just because they know of no other artist. For myself, it is Caspar David Friedrich whom I fell for because I amContinue reading “Caspar David Friedrich”
Krista Marson 